Samantha Dawley
Software Engineer - Release Engineering at Red Hat
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolSamantha Dawley is a release engineering software engineer with four years of professional experience, currently ensuring reliable delivery pipelines at Red Hat from her base in San Diego. She brings a strong applied mathematics background and multi-platform build expertise honed over years managing Windows and Linux build environments and Perforce workflows. Samantha progressed through several roles at BIOVIA—starting in professional services and QA, moving into associate engineering, and then release management—giving her practical end-to-end exposure to build, migration, and technical documentation processes. Her work blends hands-on CI/CD and branching strategy implementation with attention to reproducible releases and tooling stability. Colleagues rely on her for maintaining complex build infrastructures and translating operational issues into durable process improvements. Outside of pure engineering, she has experience in data migration and technical writing, which helps her produce clear, auditable release artifacts.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
San Diego State UniversityAssociate's degree, Mathematics, Associate's degree, Mathematics at San Diego Mesa College
Github Skills (80)
hat10
theia10
jenkins-plugin10
eclipse10
devtools10
kubernetes10
java10
openshift10
codeready10
gocd10
container-cop10
capistrano10
ide10
workspaces10
mhealth10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
SDawley/devspaces-images
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Identical copies of the code used in Brew/OSBS to build CodeReady Workspaces, but made public to enable pull requests and easier contribution; also copies of CasC Jenkins job configs
Contributions:44 PRs, 61 pushes, 39 branches in 2 years 3 months
jenkinscodereadybrewjenkins-pluginconfigs
SDawley/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator
Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:25 pushes, 150 branches in 1 year 2 months
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